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November 11, 1988 • Vol. 19, No. 46 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
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Activists hope
Bush will be
better on AIDS
than Reagan
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Leaders of some of the nation's Gay rights
and AIDS organizations say they are
hopeful that President-elect George Bush
will be more aggressive than President
Reagan in combating the AIDS epidemic.
But national Gay rights leaders,
commenting on Bush's decisive victory over
Democratic presidential candidate Michael
Dukakis, say they are less optimistic about
Bush's policies on Gay civil rights.
"The bottom line is we are seeing the end
of an era where a president actively denied
the existence of the AIDS crisis," sAid Jeff
Levi, executive director of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force.
"Bush -is more engaged and better
informed on AIDS issues," Levi said. "He'll
make it a greater priority than Reagan."
Vic Basile, executive director of the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, a Gay
political action committee and lobbying
group, said he is convinced Bush made a
subtle but concerted effort to get Gay votes
when he announced his support for the
findings of the Presidential AIDS
Commission, including the commission
. recommendation that Congress should pass
anti-discrimination legislation to protect
pesons infected with the AIDS virus. Bush's
recent statement calling for the expedited
release of AIDS drugs by the Food and
Drug Administration was also geared to
attract Gay voters, according to Basile.
"It would have been much easier to work
with a Dukakis White House," said Basile.
Continued on page 6
Statehood Party candidate Tom Chorlton hands out campaign literature at the polls
Tuesday morning.
ChOrlton's strongest showing is
in city's heavily Gay precincts
' by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay activist Tom Chorlton lost his bid for
an at-large seat on the D.C. City Council
Tuesday, finishing fourth with seven percent
of the votes cast in a seven-candidate race..
Incumbent Councilman John Ray, a
Democrat, won an easy victory by
capturing 45 percent of the vote while
attorney William Lightfoot, an indepen-dent,
won the• second of the two at-large
seats in contention. with 27 percent of the
vote.
Former City Councilman Jerry Moore, a
Republican, came in third with 11 percent
of the vote. Maverick school board member
Calvin Lockridge came in fifth, behind
Chorlton, with 5 percent, while attorney
Rochelle Burns finished sixth with 2-percent
and Libertarian Party candidate Dennis
Sobin finished seventh with 1 percent.
Chorlton, who ran as a Statehood Party
candidate, told supporters during the
campaign that he had devised a carefully
planned strategy of targeting his campaign
to key wards and precincts. His goal, he said,
was to capture the second of the two seats.
But precinct and ward results released
Wednesday by the D.C. Board of Elections
and Ethics show that Chorlton fell far short
of his goal. Although he made a good
showing in the so-called "Gay precincts" in
Dupont Circle, Capitol Hill, and Adams
Morgan, among other areas, he lost all but
one of those precincts to Lightfoot.
At the same time, Chorlton lost decisively
Continued on page])
Stuntman falls for idea of the Gay Games
by Mark Sullivan
When Paul Mart talks about the Gay
Games, he leans his elbows on his knees, tilts
his cowboy hat back so far that it threatens
to topple off his head, and smiles with his
wizened eyes.
"I can't describe to you the thrill that I
felt, that we all felt, at the opening
ceremonies for the very first Gay Games in
1982," Mart said. "The police had to stop
everything because pure pandemonium was
setting in. They finally had to ask everyone
to return to their seats so they could resume
the ceremonies. Everyone was just so proud,
they wanted to run up and embrace all the
athletes."
That moment came a little more than
three years after Mart and a handful of
others, led by former Olympian Tom
Waddell, began to plan the Gay Games, a
quadrennial sporting event based on the
Olympics. Now, almost 10 years later, Mart
is still talking up the Games.
Continued on page 15
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Voters turn
thumbs down to
most Gay issues
by Lisa M. Keen
The news was mostly grim on Gay-related
ballot referenda around the country
& this week. Oregon voters approved a
measure intended to revoke their governor's
'I executive order proteeting Gays from
dicrimination in state employment and 0
0 services. Voters in Fort Collins, Colo.,
.0 rejected an attempt to add protections for
Gays in the city's human rights ordinance.
Voters in San Francisco chose a measure -
without Gay rights 'protections over one
with, in ballot initiatives concerning a Navy
battleship homeporting in that city. And in
St. Paul, Minn., voters refused to give up
their option to repeal any part of their
human rights ordinance they don't like.
• Even in the good news on ballot
referenda there was an ominous cloud.
Voters in California rejected Rep. William
Dannemeyer's Proposition 102 which
would have required doctors in the state to
Continued on page 7
Navy discharges
8 for Gay acts,
Marines boot 11
by Lisa M. Keen
A spokesman for the U.S. Marine Corps
base at Parris Island announced Tuesday
that the office of Navy Secretary William
Ball granted a female Marine captain,
accused of engaging in homosexual-related
activities, a discharge from the military "in
lieu of a court-martial."
A spokesman for the U.S. Atlantic fleet at
the Norfolk Naval Station also acknow-ledged
this week that 8 of the 12 Navy
women assigned to the USS Yellowstone
were discharged "within the last tWo
weeks" following an investigation of alleged
homosexual activities among Them.
Parris Island spokeman Major Bob
McLean, said Captain Laura Hinckley
requested a discharge from the Marine
Corps on Oct. 3, one month after under-going
a preliminary hearing on charges of
Continued on page 13
7'77'77,7-r77rr7r".77,7',,
Activists laud council
for challenging Congress 3
Clinic dues doctor
refusing to rent house
Anti-Gay graffiti
dots Delaware campus 20
All this and
Domingo,too 25
Stuntman and saddle bros.* champion Paul Mart • • - •

November 11, 1988 • Vol. 19, No. 46 750 Outside of D.C./Baltimore Areas
THE GAY WEEKLY OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL
Jew
V A all I I IAIL VIP 1111 If INA 1 MI
' All el Mlb I IN! I 11111 .../1111 111 INV A IIII
Activists hope
Bush will be
better on AIDS
than Reagan
by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Leaders of some of the nation's Gay rights
and AIDS organizations say they are
hopeful that President-elect George Bush
will be more aggressive than President
Reagan in combating the AIDS epidemic.
But national Gay rights leaders,
commenting on Bush's decisive victory over
Democratic presidential candidate Michael
Dukakis, say they are less optimistic about
Bush's policies on Gay civil rights.
"The bottom line is we are seeing the end
of an era where a president actively denied
the existence of the AIDS crisis," sAid Jeff
Levi, executive director of the National Gay
and Lesbian Task Force.
"Bush -is more engaged and better
informed on AIDS issues," Levi said. "He'll
make it a greater priority than Reagan."
Vic Basile, executive director of the
Human Rights Campaign Fund, a Gay
political action committee and lobbying
group, said he is convinced Bush made a
subtle but concerted effort to get Gay votes
when he announced his support for the
findings of the Presidential AIDS
Commission, including the commission
. recommendation that Congress should pass
anti-discrimination legislation to protect
pesons infected with the AIDS virus. Bush's
recent statement calling for the expedited
release of AIDS drugs by the Food and
Drug Administration was also geared to
attract Gay voters, according to Basile.
"It would have been much easier to work
with a Dukakis White House," said Basile.
Continued on page 6
Statehood Party candidate Tom Chorlton hands out campaign literature at the polls
Tuesday morning.
ChOrlton's strongest showing is
in city's heavily Gay precincts
' by Lou Chibbaro Jr.
Gay activist Tom Chorlton lost his bid for
an at-large seat on the D.C. City Council
Tuesday, finishing fourth with seven percent
of the votes cast in a seven-candidate race..
Incumbent Councilman John Ray, a
Democrat, won an easy victory by
capturing 45 percent of the vote while
attorney William Lightfoot, an indepen-dent,
won the• second of the two at-large
seats in contention. with 27 percent of the
vote.
Former City Councilman Jerry Moore, a
Republican, came in third with 11 percent
of the vote. Maverick school board member
Calvin Lockridge came in fifth, behind
Chorlton, with 5 percent, while attorney
Rochelle Burns finished sixth with 2-percent
and Libertarian Party candidate Dennis
Sobin finished seventh with 1 percent.
Chorlton, who ran as a Statehood Party
candidate, told supporters during the
campaign that he had devised a carefully
planned strategy of targeting his campaign
to key wards and precincts. His goal, he said,
was to capture the second of the two seats.
But precinct and ward results released
Wednesday by the D.C. Board of Elections
and Ethics show that Chorlton fell far short
of his goal. Although he made a good
showing in the so-called "Gay precincts" in
Dupont Circle, Capitol Hill, and Adams
Morgan, among other areas, he lost all but
one of those precincts to Lightfoot.
At the same time, Chorlton lost decisively
Continued on page])
Stuntman falls for idea of the Gay Games
by Mark Sullivan
When Paul Mart talks about the Gay
Games, he leans his elbows on his knees, tilts
his cowboy hat back so far that it threatens
to topple off his head, and smiles with his
wizened eyes.
"I can't describe to you the thrill that I
felt, that we all felt, at the opening
ceremonies for the very first Gay Games in
1982," Mart said. "The police had to stop
everything because pure pandemonium was
setting in. They finally had to ask everyone
to return to their seats so they could resume
the ceremonies. Everyone was just so proud,
they wanted to run up and embrace all the
athletes."
That moment came a little more than
three years after Mart and a handful of
others, led by former Olympian Tom
Waddell, began to plan the Gay Games, a
quadrennial sporting event based on the
Olympics. Now, almost 10 years later, Mart
is still talking up the Games.
Continued on page 15
11111k111Ww_flar
IP r All I _
Voters turn
thumbs down to
most Gay issues
by Lisa M. Keen
The news was mostly grim on Gay-related
ballot referenda around the country
& this week. Oregon voters approved a
measure intended to revoke their governor's
'I executive order proteeting Gays from
dicrimination in state employment and 0
0 services. Voters in Fort Collins, Colo.,
.0 rejected an attempt to add protections for
Gays in the city's human rights ordinance.
Voters in San Francisco chose a measure -
without Gay rights 'protections over one
with, in ballot initiatives concerning a Navy
battleship homeporting in that city. And in
St. Paul, Minn., voters refused to give up
their option to repeal any part of their
human rights ordinance they don't like.
• Even in the good news on ballot
referenda there was an ominous cloud.
Voters in California rejected Rep. William
Dannemeyer's Proposition 102 which
would have required doctors in the state to
Continued on page 7
Navy discharges
8 for Gay acts,
Marines boot 11
by Lisa M. Keen
A spokesman for the U.S. Marine Corps
base at Parris Island announced Tuesday
that the office of Navy Secretary William
Ball granted a female Marine captain,
accused of engaging in homosexual-related
activities, a discharge from the military "in
lieu of a court-martial."
A spokesman for the U.S. Atlantic fleet at
the Norfolk Naval Station also acknow-ledged
this week that 8 of the 12 Navy
women assigned to the USS Yellowstone
were discharged "within the last tWo
weeks" following an investigation of alleged
homosexual activities among Them.
Parris Island spokeman Major Bob
McLean, said Captain Laura Hinckley
requested a discharge from the Marine
Corps on Oct. 3, one month after under-going
a preliminary hearing on charges of
Continued on page 13
7'77'77,7-r77rr7r".77,7',,
Activists laud council
for challenging Congress 3
Clinic dues doctor
refusing to rent house
Anti-Gay graffiti
dots Delaware campus 20
All this and
Domingo,too 25
Stuntman and saddle bros.* champion Paul Mart • • - •